Rumours of ff.net collapsing
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sga_noticeboardThe site's a nightmare to rescue fics from as it has barriers to copy-pasting, and now a captcha barrier to any downloading.
Ways around this that I've found:
- Use a pc and right-click to save the page as an html, which can later be resaved as a text file to get rid of unwanted crap. You lose any italics but at least the fic is saved and can be made into a pdf or ebook (if you prefer to read it that way).
- A better alternative is to see if the fic (often more than one page, if multiple chapters) has already been saved in Wayback. This only works if the Wayback link is fairly old, i.e. precedes the introduction of the captcha barrier. But there often are these an older Wayback links, so I'm making summary documents with a working Wayback link for each fic (where all the chapter links also work), for each author. I hope to be able to upload these as resources to Fanlore, eventually, or maybe squidge.org might archive them.
SGA authors only on ff.net (and mostly) not on AO3 that I'm currently doing this for:
kodiak_bear_country
tipper
Got any other fic-saving tips or tricks?
And can you think of other Stargate writers it'd be good to save/create one of these summary Wayback pages for?
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Date: 2022-09-20 08:23 am (UTC)To be able to copy-paste text from FFN, change the 'www' in the URL to 'm'. You can then ctrl-A to get everything or select the text you want with your mouse.
Also, if you have firefox, you can install the Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy extension and it will remove that barrier for you.
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Date: 2022-09-20 10:33 am (UTC)For multi-chapters fics, it works well. Most of the time.
You just have to check that you have all chapters. I had trouble with a couple of fics that were missing parts of the story.
But the neat thing is that you can download epub, html (in a zip file), mobi, etc.
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Date: 2022-09-20 10:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-21 01:08 am (UTC)